The “horrible” crime of the fire in Algeria… and the prosecution opens an investigation
The death and corpse mutilation of a young Algerian man accused of setting forest fires in the area of Tizi Ouzou in northern Algeria has shocked the Algerian and Arab streets.
The incident sparked a wave of sympathy on social media for the young man, who turned out to be innocent, and that his presence was to help put out the fires.
Two days ago, video footage from the town of Nath Irathen in the Tizi Ouzou region, where forest fires are raging, showed a large number of angry citizens burning a man named Djamel Ben Ismail, after they suspected him of setting forest fires.
A group of citizens arrested and beat the young man before the police intervened and got him rid of their hands, but angry youths managed to pull him out of the police car, then killed him and set his body on fire until it became charred, filming their crime.
For its part, the Algerian Public Prosecution announced the opening of an investigation into the circumstances and circumstances of the death of young Ismail.
the Algerian Public Prosecution said in a statement on Thursday: “A group of citizens arrested, Wednesday, three people in a car following suspicions that they were involved in forest fires in the Nath Irathen area.”
“After they were beaten, the police intervened to rescue them and transfer them to the police headquarters. However, the same group continued to attack the police headquarters using violence and managed to drag one of the three out of the police headquarters to the city square,” the statement said.
The victim’s father called on citizens to be “reasonable and not to be dragged by the horns of sedition.” He called on the Algerian authorities to expedite the delivery of his son’s body for burial.
Ismael is a music artist and is from the city of Meliana in the Wilaya de Médéa (80 km west of the capital). Residents of his city said that he moved to the area of the fires last Wednesday to provide assistance to the residents in putting out the fires.
